FIRST PLAY: CORT G300 PRO
Modern World
Aside from making guitars for a host of brands including PRS, Cort’s own electrics and acoustics are making serious waves. This new G300 Pro throws down the gauntlet
Words Dave Burrluck
CORT G300 PRO £749
WHAT IS IT? A super slice of modern-aimed electric guitar featuring roasted maple, stainless steel and Seymour Duncan
If you’re serious about your guitars, you’ll know that Cor-Tek produces instruments for numerous brands in its Indonesian super-factory. Not everyone wants to shout about that, of course, but plenty do, not least Manson Guitar Works here in the UK and Relish in Switzerland. PRS is also happy to praise its relationship with Cor-Tek in making its SE electric line; only in our last issue we gave a Cor-Tek-made PRS SE Custom 24-08 a 10-star Gold Award.
Cor-Tek’s own brand, Cort, predates this huge Indonesian facility, yet now there is proper UK distribution we’re seeing more examples. We last caught up with Cort in issue 465 and here we’ve snagged one of the first of its new 2021 G Series models – and the electrics have some traction. The G300 Pro is the new flagship model and tops the minirange, which starts at £279 with the G250.
The price doesn’t include a gigbag and the cardboard shipping box doesn’t exactly suggest the quality of the instrument inside. The thing is, however, this new G300 Pro is a hugely feature-led slice of modern guitar craft, the sort of instrument that covers a lot of ground without overly suggesting a specific genre or style. Admittedly, there’s plenty that puts it in the ‘modern progressive’ piegeonhole if you listen to guitars from their specification sheets. We have a compound radius fingerboard, big ol’ stainless-steel frets and those see-in-thedark Luminlay side dots that are essential for prog rockers and their sparsely lit performance spaces. Back in the day we’d have called this a ‘SuperStrat’, pure and simple.